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  1. O’Nora would wave to the press box when a new pitcher or a PH entered the game if that’s what you mean.
  2. I went to the Orioles vs. Guardians game last Friday. During the plate meeting I saw Brian O'Nora handing Nestor Ceja what looked liked duplicates of the teams' lineup cards. Nestor put them in his pocket before jogging out to 3B and I noticed him take them out during substitutions. Just curious if anyone here knows what that's about. In MLB does the 3B umpire also keeps track of lineup changes - like a "backup" to the HP umpire in case any changes are missed? 🤔
  3. Open to everybody but I'm particularly interested here in feedback from both coaches on this site and officials here who also coach / have coached youth baseball. Do you try to remember officials' names at the plate meeting and call them by name during the game (instead of "ump" or "blue")? Why or why not? Do you teach your players to call officials by their first names or by a generic title like "sir" (instead of "ump" or "blue")? Why or why not? Does it matter to you if an official calls you by name or only addresses you as "coach" throughout the game? Why or why not? Do you find officials have a more positive relationship (generally defined as more "deferential and respectful" vs. "argumentative and confrontational") with you and your players during a game - or throughout a season - when first names are used either by you towards officials or by officials towards you.
  4. @cwbaseball11 - In 2021 I went with LUCs (over Team Wendy) for my Diamond and loved them. They’re 100% worth the cost, fit the mask perfectly and look great.
  5. Got the 2023 Referee Umpires Training Catalog in the mail today. I'll usually get the NFHS Rules by Topic whenever there's a major rule update (like the P/DH change), and I bought the CCA Manual from them in 2019. Any recommendations on other baseball resources they offer? Everything Baseball Pitchers Can and Can’t Do and Say What? How to Respond to Baseball Players and Coaches look interesting - has anybody read these and found them valuable? https://store.referee.com/baseball
  6. Simply was thanking a fellow umpire this morning for weighing in. I’ve been working games from 12pm-7pm today so haven’t had much time to follow the thread. I very much appreciate the case book citations you and @JonnyCat mention. I did read the 8.3.3 case play this morning but was concerned that it only pertained to a pitched ball, not a thrown one. Thanks for adding the NFHS interpretations.
  7. Great pics! That's crazy how you can see each photographer in the background of the other's photo. 🤯
  8. Had this situation come up last night. FED rules. No runners on. Batter grounds to F6, who throws wild to F3 and the ball gets away and is rolling towards a dugout opening. F3 chases after it, manages to grasp the ball in LBT, but his momentum carries him down into the dugout. The batter-runner occupies 1B when F3 enters DBT. What is the award and where do you place the runner? In that game, I gave a 2 base award and placed the runner on 3B. My thinking in the moment was the fielder's act to grasp the ball to prevent the ball from entering the dugout is a "subsequent play" and once he enters DBT the award is given from the base the runner occupies at the time the fielder enters DBT. Just want to make sure I handled this situation correctly and, if not, what rule or case book situation would apply here?
  9. After 3 assignments that were rained / snowed out, I finally got in my first game of the season this morning. HS Varsity, I'm on the dish. Bottom 1st, no outs. SP starts off with back-to-back filthy curveballs for called strikes. Next pitch, batter whiffs on a high-in fastball. Frustrated batter then sends his bat flying towards his bench and starts walking away while I'm giving him the ejection mechanic with an emphatic "you're gone." HC knew it too, he didn't even try to go down the "why didn't you give a warning?" path. Nothing else happened and game went on as normal. That's easily the earliest ejection I've ever had to start a season. I just wanted to dust the winter cobwebs off - didn't see that one coming today.
  10. I’m a little late to this thread, but this is absolutely the BEST sentence I’ve ever read on this forum. This should be quoted on page 1 in every umpire manual.
  11. Now that’s a video I’m looking forward to. MLB has got to either mic up the crew chief to announce replay decisions or have a “comms director” umpire in NY who can cut into broadcasts to explain the mechanics of plays like this one to broadcast team. Side question: are retired umpires somehow “forbidden” from taking jobs at FOX or MLB Network to do for broadcasts what retired NFL refs are doing on FOX and CBS?
  12. Interesting situation from BOS vs. TOR earlier today... https://www.mlb.com/video/alex-verdugo-safe-after-review-x1733 Question: how would the replay review have turned out had Gurriel caught the ball AND held the bag AFTER Verdugo passed 1B? Wouldn't TOR need to legally appeal the missed base before Verdugo returned to get an out here?
  13. Appreciate all the feedback from everyone. Like I mentioned in the OP, this sitch is a first for me and getting multiple perspectives is helpful. Some of the situations we talk about on this forum are HTBT and it's tough to convey all the context.
  14. @JimKirk, thanks for taking time to clarify that!
  15. @Scissors - I thought the same thing when I ordered the replacement pads through UA. After I got the pads in the mail and saw the color, I went back to UA website and read these subtle description differences in the pads. I think there are 2 different deerskin pad colors. @JimKirk, do my eyes deceive me? #FM4000MAG-UMP-BK/TN Description: #FM4000MAG-RP-DS Description:
  16. This situation has never happened to me in a game in 14 years. Has anyone here dealt a similar situation? How did you handle it? 14u tournament game, semi final, FED rules. I'm PU. Home team on 1B side had a Bluetooth speaker with them and played music between innings or when new F1 was tossing warm-up pitches in the middle of an inning. No "walk up" music. (Personally, I'm not a fan when teams do this period but unless a TD says something or maybe somehow music is being played in an unsporting manner, I wouldn't get involved.) Most music was Hip-Hop / Top 40 genre. You could tell lyrics were being censored. Then between 3th-4th inning, I'm standing up the 1B line watching warm-up throws as music plays when I'm like, "Did I just heard the n-word?" ~5 seconds later, there it was again. Plus two more words following that which could get a radio station fined by the FCC. I turned to the bench, looked at the HC and made a couple throat-slashing motions while telling him to turn the music off. He walked out to talk with me and I told him what I heard. He replied sheepishly, "Yeah, that's not my playlist". Turns out an adult next to the bench (I'm guessing a player's dad) was controlling the music from a tablet. He must have seen my reaction because as the coach was coming out to talk to me the music stopped. I told the coach to cut out the music for the rest of the game. (I could rant about this coach showing zero responsibility or leadership, but that's not what we're talking about here...). That team won the semi-final and played the final the next game. My partner and I switched up for that game. We could hear them playing music as we changed in the parking lot and figured they had learned their lesson and we wouldn't have problems during the final. After all, I never had that happen once in hundreds of games. I mean, c'mon, what are the chances it would happen again? So this team made a pitching change around the 2nd or 3rd inning. While I was hanging out in deep C, they're playing their music. And mid-song now we've got some rapper yelling out "my n-word" about 5-6 times in a row. I'm stepping towards their bench ready to go off on the HC and the adult running the music, when some other fans yell out "turn that off!" and the music shuts off. I was pretty hot and probably did the prudent thing in that moment to walk back and get back to baseball. That team ended up getting run-ruled by 15 in 4 innings so there's that. Looking back, I wish I had handled this differently. I think my biggest mistake may have been not telling that HC at final game pregame conference to keep the music off. I'm also curious if anyone would have EJ'd the HC during the semi or final game or asked the HC or TD to have the fan controlling the music sent to the parking lot. In my mind, if you can't say a word on the field you can't play it on a speaker. Especially that word. Have at it...
  17. I've been a steady Wilson wrap-around guy for years as my go-to "cold weather" leather pads. @wolfe_man's mask post 2 weeks ago inspired me to try deerskin LUCs in my Diamond. They fit well and I'm even happier with the feel! LUCs are a step up from Wilson, IMO. Until I held both pads side-by-side when I took out the wrap-arounds to replace with the LUCs, I never realized how thin those wrap-around pads are! From an aesthetics POV, the split-front Velcro bothered me a little when I first installed the bottom pad. But I conquered my OCD and figured it's a small price to pay the improved feel and protection. I appreciate All-Star keeping their logo off the bottom pad and only adding a discrete logo on the top pad Velcro (**cough** Wilson **cough**). The only drawback from a retail standpoint is that you have to purchase the All-Star black MAG mask to get All-Star's vintage dark tan deerskin LUCs that look like brown antique leather. The replacement deerskin pads are a lighter, more "yellow" tan - though still darker than Honig's calf skin pads. I would have preferred buying the vintage dark tan LUCs but I couldn't find them anywhere sold separately.
  18. Just my way of saying thanks for your eagle-eyed observation that kept me from embarrassing myself when taking the field next spring with an upside-down TG! I'm not a fan of their TG design either but I got sucked in by the fact it matched the mask color. But then yesterday I go back in the thread to see @kylehutson's mask and the TG he paired it with and realized he made the right choice. That's a nice looking combo.
  19. You're like the guy who tells his partner his fly is wide open as you walk from the parking lot to the field - right when he finishes talking your ear off about the awesome mask he's wearing for the first time after Tony from MASK-IT transformed its original dull gray coating into totally bad ass gunmetal. And I respect that, brother. I'll take the field with you anytime.
  20. Wow! Look what showed up at my door today from Tony at MASK-IT! F3 v2 + TG / Gunmetal Diamond ix3 / Titanium
  21. Some guy’s posting baseball videos on YouTube and his lip reading game seems on point IMO.
  22. Watching CWS opening games this weekend I noticed every PU would call pitch location on a ball (e.g. “inside”, “outside”). Sometimes the location would completely replace the “ball” call. I haven’t watch NCAA baseball this year and now I’m wondering if calling ball location is an accepted mechanic at that level. I’ve always thought announcing pitch location to everybody instead of simply calling “ball” is a recipe for trouble...
  23. That's exactly what I'm looking for in FED. Thanks for the interp reference, @scrounge - I just looked it up and posted below. And like @Richvee said I don't see why other codes would differ here. SITUATION 16: R2, on second base, rounds third and runs into F5 as he attempts to field a foul fly ball. This action occurred with (a) a count of 1-1; (b) a count of 1-2; or (c) two outs. RULING: In all three instances, R2 is out for his interference. In (a), the batter returns to bat with a count of 1-2 and in (b), the batter returns to bat with a count of 1-2 as the pitch is treated as a foul for the batter’s count. In (c), the batter will lead off in his team’s next offensive half-inning. (7-4-1f)
  24. HTBT, but at that level I'm fine with verbal acknowledgement and nipping it right here. But IMO, if players decide to act like that they'd better be swinging away on the next pitch anywhere near that location. Now A) reaching the bat across the plate to touch the other batter's box line, or B) line-drawing in general - that's a different story. I'm going right to the "that's enough" warning in A and likely tossing in B. Just one ump's opinion...
  25. (This was a situation that nearly happened to me last week in an adult league game - modified OBR rule set. Thankfully there wasn't any interference on the play but it got me wondering what the right call is...) 1 out, bases full. No count on batter. Batter hits fly ball in foul territory on 3B side. R3 interferes with F5 who's running towards foul territory to catch the ball. F5 manages to catch the foul fly ball despite the interference. So what do we have? Here are 3 outcomes I see possible. R3 is out, and ball is foul is since time is called at time of interference (despite being caught by F5). R2 + R1 return to bases occupied at TOP. Batter remains at bat with count 0-1. R3 is out AND batter is out on the foul fly catch. R2 + R1 return to bases occupied at TOP. When F5 catches ball ignore interference since it did not prevent the defense from obtaining an out. Bases remain full and next better steps in with 1 out. I've been thumbing through OBR and FED rule books for what to call here but I can't find any rule (or combination of rules) that support any of these calls. My gut tells me it's #1 and that's what I would have called in that game had interference happened. Would appreciate some help on what the call is here, w/ rule references (OBR + FED). Thanks!
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